Beastfire: Here's chapter 13…ENJOY!

(Ivy's POV)

Ow…my back! Why'd Otto turn evil, I wonder? I was kinda drifting in and out of consciousness and could barely move. It was worse than a hangover, torture, and President Bush combined! As Otto was dragging me, I could have sworn that my tail was getting pretty banged up. Plus, I could feel the blood running down my back to the ground. Yes…the fun experience that is my life…

"Yo, Otto?" I asked. "What the (bleep) is up with you lately?"

His response? A punch in the face. This has happened to me way too many times. I could feel my eye bruising already. Why, of everyone in this universe, do these things always happen to me? By now, you'd think I'd be used to it…and I kinda am. In the seventeen years of my life, I've been shot, slapped around, punched, kicked, stabbed, and sent to court twice…and that's just when I was three! Things went fine until the Blender Incident when I was seven. That one was a freak accident! The steel plate is still in my head.

Things got worse at thirteen, when Don Tony came back. There was more abuse, including whips, and I ran away as often as possible. Stupid cops brought me back each time.

As I reflected on every bad thing that's ever happened to me, I reached more recent times…like when me and Frus met a few months before. Sure, I'd endured as much torture as in the past, but I actually, at this point, had someone who'd save me without hesitation. I found myself wishing he was there with me.

When I was thinking, Otto came up to me, or rather, brought me up to his face and had an evil glint in his eyes. I suddenly felt very uneasy, and in his eyes, I could read his intent: kill Sprx and Ygrene first, then Frus, and me last. Why? To dish out the torture, of course!

I looked to see where I was getting dragged to. There was this one freaky looking portal that he'd just created. I felt strong for some reason…just strong enough to make an escape attempt. I bit into his tail and swung my body against him, forcing him to drop me. I got up off of the ground and made a break for it. I headed for the door I was brought through. It appeared to be…throbbing? Weird…

I could hear Otto running after me and I reached up to open the door and got tackled. There, on my already injured back, was Otto. He got up, flipped me over, and bent my legs in directions they really weren't supposed to be bent, until I felt the bones break. I would have screamed in pain, but he had a hand over my windpipe. I could barely even breathe! I tried to reach up and strangle him, but he grabbed both of my wrists, flipped me over again, pinned both arms behind my back, and tied them together before picking me back up, throwing me over his shoulder, and taking me back through that portal.

I wondered how Jet would react to being a widow, because I sensed that Frus was looking for me…and he'd probably kill him for what he did to me. If he were to kill Otto, Jet would kill him, I'd kill her, and Onyx would kill me. So, basically, it couldn't end well.

We landed in some indescribably nasty-looking, depressing, and just plain sick and wrong place. He threw me roughly to the ground, at which point I had blood, dirt, dust, and I didn't want to imagine what else caked into my fur and hair. I knew I needed a shower…badly. It wasn't like I could lash out at him mentally, as that cut to the flame disabled all of my powers, which wouldn't return until the wound healed.

Upon landing, I wound up landing flat on my face…on a rock. I saw blood and realized that my nose wasn't just bleeding…it was broken, too. Also, all of the dirt around me was kicked up and I had an asthma attack. I was picked up and thrown into a different wall, landing on my side. There was a low growl and we looked to see Frus. Otto shoved me into the wall and approached him, ready to fight.

Beastfire: Next time is the fight! Please review! Emec, write the fight soon!